World Sight Day Greetings 2010

World Sight Day Activities in DIT, UniLurio, ICEE and University Ulster were a huge sucess. For more information click this link:World Sight Day

Follow the links for messages from the partners and students

University Ulster

University Ulster

Dublin Institute of Technology


World Sight Day 14th October 2010

World Sight Day is an international day of awareness, held annually on the second Thursday of October to focus attention on the global issue of avoidable blindness and visual impairment.

World Sight Day 2010 will have a very topical theme: The Countdown to 2020

2010 is a midway point in Vision2020 the global initiative to eliminate avoidable blindness. During 2010 we will look back at many achievements so far, and the challenges which remain in the very finite time remaining!

Global Key Messages for WSD10:

  • 4% of the world’s population is blind or vision impaired 
  • 80% of blindness is avoidable
  • 670 million people are blind or visually impaired simply because they don’t have access to an eye exam or a pair of spectacles

World Sight Day 8 October 2009


MEP Students and Staff Raise Awareness for Avoidable Blindness

 MEP Partners are organising events in DIT, UU and UniLurio to celebrate World Sight Day and to raise awareness for our efforts to eliminate Uncorrected Refractive Error as a cause of blindness and visual impairment by 2020.

Schedule of Events for World Sight Day UniLurio

13.00 -14.00 Blindness Simulator Tasks

14.00-16.00 World Sight Day Quiz

16.00-17.00 Video of Messages from Staff and Students of Partner Institutions

17.00- LATE Talent Show

Schedule of Events for World Sight Day DIT

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If you would like to take part in Mozambique Eyecare Project or World Sight Day fundraising activities throughout October or if you have any suggestions please contact aoife.phelan@dit.ie

Optomery Giving Sight World Sight Day Challenge 2010

World Sight Day Student Challenge

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